Curtain-tent.



L. E. BEAN.

CURTAIN TENT.

APPLICATION .HLED MAR.25. 1915.

Patnted Mar. 28, 1916.

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L. E. BEAN.

CURTAIN TENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, l9l5.

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LILLY n. BEAN, ornos ANGELES, camron ua.

CURTAIN-TENT;

airman Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28,1916,

application filed March 25, 1915. Serial No. 17,075.

To all whom itmau qoncem Be, itknown that I, LILLY jE. BEAN, a

, citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, haye invented a new and use ful, Curtain-Tent, of which, the following is aspecification.

It is often essential in treating many ailments of mankind that the patientshould sleep outdoors and it is often impracticable to follow out such treatment largely on account" of themanner inwhichl houses of today. are built, particularly in cities, where there is littleor no available space in which to construct the. necessary accommodations for. the. patient.

My invention. relates to a sleeping tent for. use within a room of a house by means of which the patient may sleep directly within an open window, and one, of. the main objectsof my invention is to produce such a tent of, simple form and constructionwhich consists of curtains or draperies and which when not in use forms part of the window furnishings.

Referring to the drawings which are for illustrative purposes only: Figurel is a perspect ve V ew of a device embodyinga form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of therod connection devices. same is in folded position. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the. device shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. at is an enlarged detail view of one of the rod connection devices.

5 designates a window frame on the inside of a room, 6 the lowersash, and7the upper.

sash of the window. Secured to the frame.

5 at each side of the window are brackets 8 each of which is provided with a vertically extending opening 9 adapted to receive the downwardly turned end 10 of a side rod 11, each bracket thereby forming a pivoted support for its associated rod. The side rods 11 are each provided at their outer ends with an eye 12 adapted to receive the clownwardly turned end 13 of an' end rod 14:

thereby forming a pivoted connection be-v tween each side rod and its associated end rod. Supported on the rods 11 and 1 1 by means of rings 15 are side curtains 16 of any i suitable fabric, such as is ordinarily used for draperies and the like, the rings 15 being secured to the upper edge of the curtains. Mounted in the upper part of each bracket 8 is a hook 17 adapted to receive the ends of a rod 18, the rod 18'resting upon the brackets a series of rings 20, the rings 20 being slidably mounted on the rod 18 for the purpose of supporting the curtain thereon. It is to be noted that the brackets 8 are placed upon the frame of the window in such a position that the rod: 18 supported thereon is approximately in the same horizontal plane as the lower end of the window sashes when both sashes are up in the position. indicated in Fig. 8. i

When it is desired to use the device for sleeping purposes the rods 11 and 14 are placed in. the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing in which position the rods 11 extend inwardly from the window at approximately right angles to the wall of the room and the rods 14 are placed in a posi side as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1

and. secured together by hooks 14:. In this position the ends of the side curtains 16 overlap as indicated at 21 in Fig. 1. The top curtain 19 is then placed over the topof the rods 11 and 14, the edge of the curtain being permitted to fall downwardly over the side curtains as indicated at 22, the same being held in place by means of suitable weights 23 which may be secured inthe top curtain in any suitable manner.

' 24 designates a. bed shown moved into a position directly insidea window, that portion of the bed occupied by the head and upper portion of the body of the patient being within the tent formed by the curtains, the lower ends or edge of the side curtains falling upon the bed, and together with the top curtain 19 forming a tent or inclosure about the head and upper portion of the body of the patient. The tent when so placed upon the bed is open at one side only, that is the window side, and the air from the outside has free access to the interior of the tent; the tent acting as a closure prevents drafts which with the tent open would prove injurious to the patient.

It is to be noted that a space 25 is left between the window sash 6 and the top curtain 19 through which a small portion of air is permitted to enter the room.

It is to be noted that the tent as shown covers one portion of the bed, it being understood that the rods 11 may be lengthened, in which event the tent would be made longer and cover a sufficient portion of the bed to permit a plurality of patients to occupy thedicated. The top curtain 19 in this position forms a curtain for the window, hanging straight downwardly from the rod 18 as shown in Fig. 2.

The curtain tent made as above described has not only utility as a tent when used upon a bed as heretofore described but when.

placed in the folded position'shown in Fig. 2 forms an ornamental feature of draperies for the room.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination with a frame having an opening therein, brackets on said frame at each side of said opening, a rod pivotally mounted in each bracket, a curtain on each of said rods, a stationary rod supported on said brackets, and a curtain on said stationary rod adapted to extend over the top of said first named curtains.

2. In combination with a frame having an opening therein, brackets on said frame at each side of said opening, a rod pivotally mounted in each bracket, a curtain on each rod hanging downwardly therefrom, a stationary rod supported on said brackets, a top curtain on said stationary rod adapted to be supported on said pivoted rods to close the top of said first named curtains, and means for securing the ends of said pivoted rods together.

3. In combination with a window frame,

brackets on each side of said frame at each side of the window, aside rod pivotally connected to each bracket, an end rod pivotally connected to each side rod, a side curtain supported on each side and end rod, and a top curtain adapted to close theopening at the upper end of said side curtains.

4. In combination with a window frame,

brackets on each side of said frame at each side of the window, a side rod pivotally connected to each bracket, an end rod pivotally connected to each side rod, a side curtain supported on each side/and end rod, a stationary rod supported on said brackets, a

top curtain secured to said stationary rod adapted to extend over the top of said side" curtains, and means for secur ng said end rods together.

5. In combination with a window frame,

brackets on said frame atleach side of the window, a side rod pivotally connected to each bracket, an end rod pivotally connected to each side rod, the free ends of said end rods being arranged to extend alongside of each other, means for detachably securing the free ends of said end rods to each other my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 18th day of Mai-C11, 1915.

LILLY n. BEAN.

In presence of GRACE H. MARTIN, FRANK L. A. GRAHAM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0; 

